Well sir, you smashed this challenge - and ended up with a stunning unplugged album. It's made me want to hear some of your established tracks with similar stripped-down arrangements, leading the listener to concentrate on the sheer artistry of your words and astonishingly soulful vocal. Next challenge for you is the 24 hours album. 24 minutes of original music in 24 hours. I believe it originated on alonetone. Off you go.

Glad you didn't bin it! Liking the driving feel - immediately hooky also.

A sweet almost-lullaby - glad this one found a home in your February. So very pretty.

Really love this melody and the breezy feel. Some gorgeous little acoustic guitar runs in there too.

Great song writing - loving the sentiment and your tender vox here. I love it when the FAWM and RPM parameters draw out his kind of track, any more of an arrangement would detract from the message - IMHO.

Woohoo! Logged in and back from Brighton. <3 Can now fave this utter classic.

Hauntingly sad and beautiful

Great tune Andrew. we held back on a few old ideas too. i'm glad you put it out there

Hehehe... there's LOTS of youthful angst is these Songs from the Shoebox... possibly an embarrassing amount... You wait... let's see if I'm brave enough to record the ones from 1978/9!!!

That's rather wonderful ...... a bit of youthful angst ??

You've been a writer / poet for so many years!!! How delightful to put these songs out. I'm glad you found the shoe box.

Another beautiful piece of storytelling through haunting voice and gentle music

You sing these words perfectly … I am just in awe of your story telling

So lyrical

Intrigued … who is this written for? Whoever it is is a lucky person … love this

I saw your comments on my site. Thanks. It sounds like you’ve got this recording process figured out. I’m still learning as I go. Thank God for YouTube. 😎

Another little gem ......

This is kick-ass! You have a great voice and I love your guitar playing. When you have great ingredients like that, you don’t need much more than good material, of which there is plenty here! I am very inspired listening to this. I appreciate you sharing it and I look forward to delving deeper -bjk

Good stuff. I'm always amazed at how versatile you are.

That's a good song. I like the "acoustic demo," but do you also envision this as a rocker (2 guitars, bass, and drums)? I think it'd kill.

Flip, you've been busy while I've been twiddling me thumbs... Another cool stripped down track

Oh yeah, this works... big time.

Oh this is the business. Nice harp.

Cool track guys

What a voice. Nice track.

Aha... I needed waking up... and this did the job. Rockin

Nice one.

Yeah, like it. Makes me think of Marc Bolan.

Cool track.

Oh yeah... five chunky classics. Looking forward to the other half of it.

And more slide - tasty. Like the effect of the chords and how it rolls along. Tasty stuff.

"I'm dreaming of good times, hey baby what was your name?" - yes! Love that riff. And that little cowbell count just puts a big smile on my face every time it appears... Oh yeah, and a classy title too... lol

Ooo! I hear slide... Oh this is rocking stuff sir. The old feets is tapping here. Great way to wake up this morning. Love those lead breaks.

Both kinds of music... rock... and... roll. Yeeha! Nice one.

James said it: "Oh yeah..." I've been listening a lot to the original recently, and this version's got the vibe. I'd love to hear a mix that you're happier with. Oh, and some FINE harp playing.

Nice feel and gorgeous vocals. Nice one. And jingles/tingles at the end :-) Have you guys got more sunshine than the rest of us? That's two tracks with a really summery vibe. How have you managed to summon that up? I'm frozen and shivering here...

WOOF! Worth the wait. Love those guitars. And what a song. Wonderful stuff.

Heard this before somewhere! lol Still fab. In fact, even fabber 2nd listen.

Oh yeah :-) Like this a lot.

Oh yeah, like it... Hearts of Mars is not wrong! I'll be back to check out your other tracks.